(A/N: Guys, a little notice who have already read the previous chapter before it was edited. I said that we'll think that YouTube was created in 2004 instead of 2005. But one of my dear readers, BoNe_of_mY_SoWRd, gave me the brilliant idea of Alistair just making YouTube himself. I had second thoughts, since I thought it would be the same as those fics that the author just tried to stretch the story and make the MC a CEO. But then I was like "eh, he's not starting a company, he's making an app" so whatever.)
(Song that Alistair's humming: Arcane, The Bridge song)
"Hm hmm, hm hm hm hmm. Hm hmm, hm hm hm hmm. (Dear friend across the river / My hands are cold and bare.)" Walking in the creepily quiet roads, Alistair hummed a song to the Tennysons and himself :"Hm hmm, hm hm hm hmm. Hm hmm, hm hm hm hmm. (Dear friend across the river / I'll take what you can spare.)"
"Hisss." He heard the quiet hissing from a few elderly. But pretended to not hear them :"Hm hm, hm hm hm hmm. Hm hmm, hm hmm. (I ask of you a penny / My fortune, it will be.)" Glancing back, Gwen saw old people suddenly beginning to follow them. She whispered :"Uhh, boys? Are you planning to do something soon?"
"Hm hmm, hm hm hmm. Hm hm, hm hm hmm. (I ask you without envy / We raise no mighty towers.)" Alistair hummed lightly, earning a slightly worried look from Ben :"Hm hmm, hm hm hmm. Hm hmm, hm hm hmm. (Our homes are built of stone / So come across the river.)"
"SHAAA!!" The aliens revealed their true colors, hissing loudly as they teamed up and threw a car at the group. "Kids, watch out!" Max's eyes widened, moving fast to save the children. But Alistair, humming the last tune, simply raised his right hand :"Hm hmm, hm hm hmm. (And find the world below.)"
With the sound of laser cutting through the air, a giant laser beam escaped the Techtrix as he lowered his fist. Vaporizing the car instantly, along with the few Limaxes who threw the car. Blowing away the smoke of the Techtrix, he cracked his neck, smirking at the shocked enemies :"Well, time to kick ass and take names."
"SHAAA!!" They got over their shock quickly, roaring angrily as they rushed at them. "Oh yeah, time to kick some alien butt!" Ben smirked, excited as hell, but trying to keep his cool in front of the camera that was already rolling.
Wasn't science magic so amazing? He had created a camera that could capture everything as if somebody else was filming (third person perspective), instead of the show being first person POV. And since it was science magic, he didn't need to explain shit. Not about how he made it or how it worked.
"Wait, Ben!" Max pulled him back :"We can't waste time here! We don't know what they're planning to do with the kidnapped people. Our top priority is getting those people to safety!"
Ben didn't want to pass on his first chance to show off in front of the camera though :"But how are we gonna do that if these aliens don't let us? We need to get rid of them first!" But Alistair, patting his shoulder, shook his head :"No, grandpa Max is right. Come on, I'll hold them off, you carry grandpa Max and Gwen!"
"Haaah, fine..." Sighing reluctantly, he slapped his Omnitrix in disappointment. With a roar, Wildmutt appeared. Growling at his relatives, he nodded towards his back.
"You're not going anywhere!" A Limax shouted, rushing towards them as Alistair kept shooting them down :"Especially nowhere near our ship!" There were a lot of them. Because of the commotion in the middle of the city, every Limax had come out to subdue them.
"Grar!" Wildmutt, with Max and Gwen on his back, roared at Alistair, receiving a serious nod :"Go!" As he started running towards the entrance he had found, the noiret shot a charged laser beam, vaporizing the nearest Limaxes.
Backing off at the closing aliens, he pressed his Nemetrix with a smirk :"Wynter!" He spread his wings menacingly, causing them to back off in fear :"A Necrofriggian?! How?!" But he looked different than all the times he had turned into Wynter.
He was clad in cloth-like armor. Like a suit of armor that didn't stand out like armor and only served as clothes. But the black semi-skintight armor with orange lines was anything but just clothing. Another fact that Alistair loved about Techtrix, was that it could assist him even in his transformations.
In default, it was a suit of extremely durable armor. But turning into weapons, guns, lasers, you name it, was nothing to even mention. Feeling and reveling in the drip, Wynter breathed ice, freezing the nearby Limaxes who weren't quick to dodge or escape.
"Bye bye!" Grinning, he waved before flying after the others. It didn't take long to catch up. He simply fazed into the ground and went after the signal of the Omnitrix that the Techtrix had.
"Alistair!" Max smiled as he made himself visible. "At your service." He smiled before turning to Wildmutt :"Ben, I've picked up on the signal of the ship those aliens were talking about! Follow me! Also, let me help you with the weight."
Flying above him, he picked up Max and carried him. "Grar!" Wildmutt growled suddenly, nodding behind him. Wynter hummed :"Did you pick their scent? Are they after us?" He got his confirmation by a nod.
"Then we should finish this quickly." Said Wynter, before a green light flashed and XLR8 appeared, carrying Gwen :"Then XLR8's your guy for the job!" Smirking, a red light enveloped Wynter :"And so is MantAstral!"
MantAstral, also in a suit of armor, held Max by his arms with his legs —with ease, surprisingly— and they quickened their pace. XLR8 looked up with mild surprise :"How can you fly so easily in a place like this? This place isn't suitable for flight, right?"
"Just about everything is possible when you're Alistair Aliyev, Benji!" He smirked, earning an eye roll from Ben :"You've really taken a liking for that name, huh?" Receiving a snicker. Seeing a blockage in the way, MantAstral warned :"I think we're just about there." Before shooting a laser beam from his eyes and destroying the blockage.
With the way cleared, they entered the secret layer. Cutting through the air with their speed. Looking around in surprise, especially at the spaceship, MantAstral put Max down :"Goddamn, look at this place. They sure were busy, huh?"
"Tell me about it." XLR8 nodded, putting Gwen down :"Just look at how many there are here. If we had arrived any later, these aliens would have taken everybody!"
"Boys, we don't have time to marvel at this place." Gwen reminded, frowning at the green pod holding a person inside :"We need to take everybody out of here quickly!"
XLR8 turned to MantAstral :"Then let's take care of whoever is inside of that spaceship first." The Aerophibian nodded before flying towards the ship. Opening the door, they all got to bringing out whoever was inside of the ship.
"And that's that." Alistair smirked once he transformed back. But a voice caught their attention :"No! Damn you! We won't let you get away with this!" They looked to see the Limaxes had arrived :"Once we get rid of you, we'll board all the food back on the ship!"
"Food?!" Gwen's eyes widened :"They want to eat these people?!" As Max frowned, Ben gagged in disgust :"Don't even think that's going to happen," Before slamming his Omnitrix :"Cause Heatblast's bringing out the heat!" He didn't even need to touch the Omnitrix, but Alistair told him it would look good in the show.
(A/N: He's not wrong. I honestly can't wear a watch without thinking of slamming down on it ever since I first watched Ben 10.)
"Wait, Ben-" Alistair was about to stop him, but Heatblast was quick to shoot fire to burn them. The problem rose when they suddenly began to fuse under the intense heat instead. When Heatblast stopped, the Limaxes had transformed into a hulking, giant slime monster.
"Whatever you are, you just made a terrible mistake." A voice said menacingly :"Us Limaxes live for the heat! Why do you think we came to the desert in the summer?" Alistair pursed his lips :"He makes a mighty good point, you know?"
"Did you know about this?" Heatblast pointed at the giant, unamused as Alistair shrugged :"Not really. I only found out these suckers are weak to the cold, not that they get stronger by the heat. Good going there, genius. Now do you know why I tell you to listen?"
"Alright, fair enough-" Ben sighed tiredly, annoyed before he was smacked by the giant Limax and flew away. "Ugh..." He groaned as he laid on the dented ship he had smashed into. Alistair shouted, unbothered by the situation :"You alright?"
Heatblast held up a thumbs up :"Yeah, I'll just leave this guy to you. You're the icy one of us two and all." Alistair chuckled :"Then you have a good rest for now. I'll give this guy a COOL reason to CHILL out." And pressed his Nemetrix.
"Wynter!" Said the ghostly voice. And the Limax, feeling threatened, stepped away before glaring and swinging at him. "Trying to punch a ghost?" Wynter snickered, turning invisible, intangible and freezing the hand that went through him :"Brilliant idea, mate."
The Limax screamed in pain and panic, looking for any sign of the Necrofriggian. But he only found an ice breath freezing his back. Hissing in pain, it swung again and again, but to no avail. Using Wynter was straight up cheating, which was why Alistair loved him.
But also wanting his little friend to have the chance to shine, he went a bit easy. "Ben, might need a bit of help here!" He was moved by his own mindset. How could someone be so considerate? Oh, he needed to treat himself to a delicious milkshake later on. A big heart needed a stomach filled with delicacies.
"How am I supposed to help? I don't have anything on me that can freeze!" Heatblast sat up, frowning and serious. But when he heard a sizzling sound on himself, he raised an eyebrow. Looking at his shoulder to see a mist rising after a drop of water was vaporized.
"Huh?" He looked up to see a water pipe. "That's it!" His eyes —or at least their sockets— widened, before shooting a fire beam at it. Causing it to break and water to rain down on the giant. It roared in pain, its body starting to grow weaker and smaller at a faster rate.
Once it was small enough, Wynter descended before he was enveloped in a red light. Crashing into the ground, a blue alien similar to an anteater with a bulb for a stomach appeared. "Frozen!" He spoke through the Techtrix that he could control telepathically. And which acted like armor again, shielding his vulnerable stomach among many other parts.
Seeing its natural predator, the Limax was quick to try and escape in panic. Even when it was extremely weakened and just about dying because of the water and ice. "It seems like the hunter, has become the hunted." He snickered, the Techtrix conveying his thoughts in speech as ice mist escaped his palms.
Turning the Limax into ice before he shattered it and threw the pieces into his mouth :"And it seems like your order just had you for dinner." He snickered again at his own joke. Heatblast looked at him with disgust :"I can't believe you just ate an alien, dude."
Transforming back, Alistair rolled his eyes :"He talked a lot of shit. This is the least he deserved." Stretching, he cracked a few places :"Anyway, who cares about the dead. Let's deal with what's really important." His greedy eyes landed on the ownerless spaceship, his right hand and the Techtrix acting fidgety.
(A/N: My friends, allies and brothers of the anti-harem faction, join me in talking shit and discussing even more about how illogical harems are and what illogical things the harem only readers say now that the chapter has come to an end! Today's subject, Yuri in harem is NTR! I don't know who came up with that, but that person clearly deserved "the most stupid person of the century" award! Because oh, my, god, these people are just another level of idiot. (I understand that people look into fiction for the fantasies, but damn, some people don't have any standards at all. To the point that it's actually dumb, not even funny anymore.)
They say "oh, the girls shouldn't complain that I'm two timing (why am I being stupid, it's obviously 10 to 20 timing), they should completely tolerate each other without ever arguing, and they shouldn't hold any sort of feelings towards each other! Like, I would agree with them leaving out the MC, but these people just talk about the girls having ANY sort of feelings towards each other beyond friendship is straight out cheating. Bro, they're literally fucking the same guy, getting fucked in the same bed, kissing each other and going even beyond if the MC is cultured enough!
"Nah, normal friends do that, so my harem shouldn't like each other beyond friendship either!" Yet another stupid thing about harems, my brethrens! Somebody keep notes, because I don't think anybody can memorize this vast book.)